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The Chevra Inc

The Chevra Inc (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,915,855 to it, the largest being JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ($712,605). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$825k
Funders on record
31
Grants received
$2.9M
Net assets
$2.2M
22/31 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 60%
01What it does

What The Chevra Inc does

Mission

The Chevra Incs primary goals in the greater Philadelphia area are to ignite widespread sparks of Jewish enthusiasm and pride, to increase Jewish education among young Jewish adults and to reverse the current trends of Jewish assimilation and apathy.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The Chevra Inc has continued to achieve its goals through providing relevant educational, spiritual, social, experiential, and a wide variety of other programs that speak to the distinctive life experiences of young Jewish professionals. The organization has served more than 70,000 participants at various programs and events that it has sponsored or collaborated on. The Chevra, Inc has a proven track record in striking sensible balances in its programs and events that are often difficult to finesse: between social and educational, physical and spiritual, cutting edge and traditional singles and couples etc.

    $554,528 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $554,528.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($845k) Expenses 100 ($763k) Net assets 100 ($1.7M)2018 Revenue 100 ($845k) Expenses 114 ($868k) Net assets 99 ($1.6M)2019 Revenue 101 ($855k) Expenses 101 ($768k) Net assets 104 ($1.7M)2020 Revenue 99 ($834k) Expenses 60 ($454k) Net assets 127 ($2.1M)2021 Revenue 61 ($518k) Expenses 62 ($470k) Net assets 130 ($2.2M)2022 Revenue 84 ($709k) Expenses 102 ($781k) Net assets 125 ($2.1M)2023 Revenue 99 ($839k) Expenses 117 ($892k) Net assets 122 ($2.0M)2024 Revenue 98 ($825k) Expenses 88 ($672k) Net assets 131 ($2.2M)
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Revenue (98)Expenses (88)Net assets (131)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $1.8M to $2.2M (+26%).

$1.9M
$1.8M
$1.8M
$2.2M
$2.2M
$2.1M
$2.1M
$2.3M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

86% of The Chevra Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,618 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$81k
’17
−$23k
’18
$88k
’19
$380k
’20
$48k
’21
−$73k
’22
−$53k
’23
$152k
’24
1.6
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

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Listed45555544
Joined·+2+0+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·1000010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $242k → $493k.

9 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of The Chevra Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

The Chevra Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

60% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund The Chevra Inc.

24%
largest funder
57%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 45% · 2019 36% · 2020 32% · 2021 36% · 2022 29% · 2023 20% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

45% of The Chevra Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

59% of The Chevra Inc's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

NY
PA
NJ
CT
CA
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

The Chevra Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,953 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin18% · above the median
Months of reserve1.6mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−0% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,953 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

50% of spending goes to programs.

Program 50%Management 42%Fundraising 7%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

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Questions and answers

Who funds The Chevra Inc?
The Chevra Inc (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,915,855 to it, the largest being JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ($712,605). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does The Chevra Inc have?
IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $2,915,855 in grants to The Chevra Inc, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of The Chevra Inc?
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA is the largest funder on record, with $712,605 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like The Chevra Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 31 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing